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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1890.

Events

  • January – William Heinemann launches his Heinemann publishing business in London's Covent Garden with Hall Caine's successful novel The Bondman.[1]
  • March 8 – Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.[2]
  • c. June–September – Joseph Conrad, at this time serving as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski with a Belgian steamer company, makes a journey on the Congo River which will inspire his novel Heart of Darkness (1899).
  • July 13 – Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", one of his best known works, is first published, in The San Francisco Examiner.
  • July–August – Bram Stoker holidays with his family at Whitby and from the library there reads William Wilkinson's An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, all of which feed into his composition of Dracula.[3]
  • September – Arthur Morrison joins the staff of The Globe (London newspaper).[4]
  • October 20 – A day after the death of Richard Francis Burton in Trieste, his widow, Isabel, burns his journals, a revised translation of The Perfumed Garden and many more manuscripts and books, largely on account of their erotic nature.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, suppressed in Russia, is published in Berlin in Russian, German, English and French, with other English versions issued in the UK and the United States. The United States Post Office Department prohibits mailing of newspapers containing serialized installments of it.[6]
    • Macmillan Publishers in the U.K. begin to supply on "net book" terms, i. e. no discounts are available to consumers.[7]
    • Hall Caine's four-act historical drama Mahomet, based on the life of Muhammad and written for the actor-manager Henry Irving, is banned by the Lord Chamberlain after it causes unrest in Britain's Muslim communities, threatens British rule in parts of India and strains Britain's relations with the Ottoman Empire.[8]

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References

  1. ^ Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan (2009-04-06). A Companion to the History of the Book. Wiley. pp. 343–. ISBN 9781405192781. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
  2. ^ Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7.
  3. ^ Sutherland, John (2017). Who is Dracula's Father?. London: Icon. pp. 74–5. ISBN 978-1-78578-297-8.
  4. ^ Loughlin-Chow, M. Clare (2004). "Morrison, Arthur George (1863–1945)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38649. Retrieved 2014-06-03. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  5. ^ Isabel Burton; Lady Isabel Burton (1999). The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. Asian Educational Services. p. 441. ISBN 978-81-206-0728-6.
  6. ^ "Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata". British Library. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  7. ^ R. J. L. Kingsford; Reginald John Lethbridge Kingsford (2 January 1970). The Publishers Association 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-07756-9.
  8. ^ Foulkes, Richard (2008). Henry Irving: A Re-Evaluation of the Pre-Eminent Victorian Actor-Manager. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-138-66565-1.
  9. ^ Hubert, Susan J. (2002). Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives. University of Delaware Press. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-87413-743-9.
  10. ^ Frank Northen Magill; Alison Aves (November 1999). Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z. Routledge. p. 2899. ISBN 978-1-57958-048-3.
  11. ^ Gerald L. Fetner (1 February 2012). Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History. SUNY Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7914-8566-8.
  12. ^ Charles P. Mitchell (2001). The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-31641-8.
  13. ^ Sylvie Maurel (30 October 1998). Jean Rhys. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-27006-4.
  14. ^ John Lucas (2001). Ivor Gurney. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7463-0887-5.
  15. ^ "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  16. ^ Richard Kaufmann (1891). Paris of To-day. Cassell. p. 52.
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